EP1804542A1 - Modeling the downlink system load - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method according the preamble of claim 1 and to a method according the preamble of claim 3.
- radio resources may include time, power, frequency and codes.
- 3G 3rd Generation
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems
- FDD Frequency Division Duplex
- WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
- 4G wireless systems, as WiMax, and the evolution of 2G standards (e.g. GSM) apply the concept of shared resources.
- the system environment has the characteristic of being interference-limited since power and spectrum resources are shared among the users and among the cells of the system.
- Such characteristic implies that the traffic load handled by a cell affects also the traffic loads handled by the neighbour cells and, thus, it has also an impact on the traffic load served by the whole system.
- RRM Radio Resources Management
- An examples of basic RRM functions is admission control that performs the check if a new request for radio resources from a user accessing a cell can be admitted without degrading the quality of the ongoing calls/users.
- admission control plays a primary role in optimising the utilization of the cell-shared resources and in maintaining the system load within a delimited range in order to avoid unstable conditions in the network.
- Admission control is typically a centralised function, e.g., in 3G cellular systems, it is provided within the Radio Network Controller (RNC).
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- admission control In general, to admit a request of a new user or bearer, admission control typically estimates, via the use of proprietary algorithms, the system load (or its increase due to a new user request) and then decides the admittance of the user request by comparing the estimated system load (or its increase) with a predefined threshold above which service quality cannot be guaranteed.
- the calculation of the actual system load typically takes into account interference and resource measurements available in the system.
- admission control algorithms are independently applied to the uplink (UL) and to the downlink (DL) transmission directions.
- the cell and system loads are calculated with different approaches in the UL and DL directions.
- the load estimation may be done by measuring the Received Total Wideband Power (RTWP) and, in the DL direction, by measuring the Transmitted Carrier Power (TCP); where the TCP is the total cell transmitted power, as measured at the cell antenna connector, for common and dedicated channels.
- RWP Received Total Wideband Power
- TCP Transmitted Carrier Power
- Each request for resources in a given direction, UL or DL, is weighted in order to estimate the new (i.e. after the acceptance of the new request) UL or DL system load so that such computed system load can be compared with the resource budget or maximum load acceptable in the addressed cell.
- the weight of each request depends on the type of the desired service by a user, on the user equipment position and on the amount of interference affecting the user and the addressed cell.
- a cell load hereinafter referred with symbol p, as defined in reference Holma, Tosakala [2], generally indicates the ratio of the received useful power (the power spent for the served calls in the cell) over the total received power (which includes both useful and interfering power) as following: ⁇ ⁇ Re ceivedUsefulPoower Totale Re ceivedPower
- the definition in (1) also applies if the power is substituted with any of the shared radio resources of the system.
- a receiving point for the respective powers has to be defined.
- a system load hereinafter referred with symbol S_ ⁇ , is defined as the load of a cell taking into consideration also the contribution of the interfering powers coming from neighbouring cells.
- the receiving point is generally straightforwardly defined as being the receive antenna connector of the cell.
- Such definition of the UL receiving point is widely used in state of the art cell and system load estimation methods, as for example in Holma, Tosakala [2].
- the receiving point for the cell-transmitted signal is not unique, being the receive antenna connector of each connected user and, in general, being the connected users located in different geographical points respect to the serving cell.
- C-RNC Controlling-Radio Network Controller
- the C-RNC has the overall control of the radio resources of its related NodeBs.
- a NodeB is a functional node in a Radio Network Subsystem responsible for radio transmission and reception in one or more cells to and from the user equipments. In general, for each NodeB, there is only one C-RNC.
- One of the tasks of the C-RNC is to operate, maintain and update, in both UL and DL directions, the status of the load of the controlled cells so as to correctly decide whether to admit or not a new incoming request.
- connections over the radio interface have to obtain a predefined level of quality.
- a measure of such quality level for the generic i-th user is the target Carrier to Interference Ratio ( CIR target,i ) which indicates the desired ratio of received carrier wave power to received interfering power for the i-th user.
- CIR target,i the target Carrier to Interference Ratio
- Other measures for the quality of a connection include Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR), Signal to Noise Ratio (S/N), and Signal to Noise plus Interference Ratio (S/(I+N)).
- the received total power I TOT consists of the contributions given by the interference of intra-cell users (the total power received from the served calls at the serving cell), by the interference of inter-cell users (the total power received from the neighbour cells), and by the system noise.
- ⁇ i an orthogonality factor taking into account the loss of orthogonality of transmitted codes due to the multipath effect
- I OWN is the intra-cell interference
- I OTHER is the inter-cell interference
- P N is a received average white Gaussian noise
- G i is a geometry factor, defined as following: G i ⁇ I OWN I OTHER + P N
- equation (5) A major drawback of the theoretical formalization of the DL system load provided in equation (5) is that, by combining equation (5) with equations (2) and (3), it appears that for each i-th served user, the factor 1 - ⁇ i + 1 G i needs to be calculated. Such factor depends on the position of the i-th user with respect to the cells, serving and neighbor, of the system.
- the C-RNC module since it is one of the roles of the C-RNC module to maintain the context of each active call and update it consequently via the respective dedicated and common measurements, the C-RNC module might result to be overloaded.
- Radio measurements generally used are the TCP and the transmitted power per allocated code.
- TCP is a common measurement of the total cell transmitted power.
- the transmitted power per allocated code is a dedicated measurement of the transmitted power per active code or radio connection.
- Radio measurements are performed by NodeB and forwarded to the C-RNC over the line interface connecting the RNC to the NodeB.
- the before mentioned aim is achieved by a method for modeling the downlink system load defined by the steps of claim 1 and by a method for admission control defined by the steps of claim 3.
- the provided invention advantageously allows the DL system load to be easily updated.
- the provided invention reduces the computational complexity of the DL system load estimation.
- the proposed method is robust with respect to the frequency to which the radio measurements are made available in real systems.
- the proposed inventive method of modeling of the DL system load according the present invention includes the calculation of a virtual point "V" where all the users of a cell of a cellular telecommunication system are virtually moved.
- each generic i-th cell user has an actual target level of received signal quality ⁇ DL,i , herein after referred for simplicity as ⁇ i .
- Such received signal quality may be the CIR, the SIR, the S/N, the S/(I+N) or any other measure of the signal quality that the user desires to obtain.
- any generic i-th user located at an actual point of the cell may be virtually moved to any virtual point V of the cell, without changing the power balance at the serving cell nor the quality of the offered service actually perceived by the served users, if a virtual target level ⁇ i,V of received signal quality of the generic i-th user is recalculated accordingly.
- the virtual target level of received signal quality ⁇ i,V is recalculated as if each i-th user were located at point V with the constraints that the power budget of the serving cell as well as the actual quality level perceived by the specific i-th user as well as by all the generic i-th users remain unchanged.
- the DL system load S_ ⁇ DL is modeled as if all the users of the cell were located in the virtual point V.
- Figure 1 shows a flow chart of a method for estimating the DL system load according to an advantageous embodiment of the present invention in which a j-th user is accessing its serving cell.
- radio measurements may be performed by the j-th user itself.
- the incoming j-th user may report, via a RACH message, an indication of the signal quality, the C / I j (Carrier over Interference power ratio), measured on the Primary Common Pilot CHannel (P-CPICH) of the accessed cell.
- C / I j Carrier over Interference power ratio
- P-CPICH Primary Common Pilot CHannel
- step 110 it is calculated the virtual point V to which all the cell users, the already admitted ones and the j-th accessing user, are virtually moved.
- such virtual point V may be an already predefined point and therefore the calculation of the virtual point V, in step 110, may correspond to a mere selection of the already predefined virtual point.
- the virtual point V corresponds to the barycentre of all the served user positions and of the actual access point of the j-th user.
- the virtual access point V may correspond to the actual accessing position of the j-th user.
- the virtual interference level I v,new experienced by the j-th user as if it were virtually located at the virtual point V may also correspond to the interference level I j actually experienced by the j-th user at its actual accessing point.
- a newly calculated cell load ⁇ DL,new may correspond to the desired received signal quality CIR target (or ⁇ j ) as requested by the accessing j-th user.
- the calculation of the virtual point V may take into account the already admitted users and the incoming j-th accessing user.
- both the interference measurement reported by the j-th incoming user and the interference measurements reported by the already admitted users may be used for the calculation of the virtual point V as the barycentre of the system.
- a new virtual interference level I V,new received at the new virtual access point V may be calculated.
- the new virtual interference level I V,new may be obtained as the average of the interference levels experienced by all (admitted and the one to be admitted) cell users weighted by the respective user's contribution to the cell load.
- step 120 it is calculated, for the j-th accessing user, the virtual target level of received signal quality ⁇ j,V as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point V so that the power budget of the cell and each of the actual target level of received signal quality are unchanged. With the above constraint, it is also ensured that the power to be transmitted by the serving cell Cj to the j-th user stays unchanged.
- equation (eq. 132) the sum of the previous virtual target levels of received signal quality for the already admitted users, ⁇ DL, 0 , is updated, with the newly calculated virtual point, through the factor I V , 0 I V , new .
- Equation (Eq.131) actually defines the total power (serving cell + neighbour cells) over the power from the serving cell, as received by the users of that serving cell at the common virtual access point.
- the new cell load ⁇ DL,new is given by the sum of each single user contribution to the cell load.
- the new DL scaling factor may be derived as a new average DL scaling factor DL_ ⁇ new of at least one previous scaling factor and a new scaling factor.
- TCP is the Transmitted Carrier Power of the accessed cell
- TCP NC,k is the TCP transmitted by the k-th Neighbour Cell
- Lj defines the inverse of the attenuation (or pathloss) between the j-th user and the accessed cell
- L k defines the inverse of the attenuation (or pathloss) between the j-th user and the k-th Neighbour Cell.
- the DL estimation according to the proposed method may be updated with radio measurements available in a real system and deployed product
- the calculation of the virtual point V may be adjusted with periodical common measurements performed by the cell.
- the new DL system load S_ ⁇ DL,new may be estimated at each deletion event in which a quitting user is leaving the cell (e.g. for call release or outward handover/mobility) or at each handover event in which an inward mobile user is accessing from a neighbouring cell.
- the new estimated system load is calculated by removing the contribution of the departing user. In both events (deletion and handover), the user (departing or accessing) is assumed to be located at the previously calculated virtual point.
- Figure 2 shows a flow chart for DL admission control according to a further advantageous embodiment of the present invention.
- step 100 a j-th user is accessing the cell.
- the new DL system load S_ ⁇ DL,new may be estimated via steps 100 to 130 as above described.
- step 200 the estimated system load S_ ⁇ DL,new is compared to a predefined threshold above which quality of service cannot be guaranteed. If the estimated system load S_ ⁇ DL,new is below the threshold, the request of service of accessing j-th user is accepted and the j-th user is admitted within the cell. If the estimated system load S_ ⁇ DL,new is above the threshold, the request of service of accessing j-th user may be rejected.
- the variation of the estimated system load S_ ⁇ DL,new due to the access of the accessing j-th user may be used in the above comparison.
Abstract
In wireless telecommunication systems, known methods for estimating the downlink system load are very complex since the receiving point for the cell-transmitted signal varies with the geographical points of the user within the serving cell.
The proposed invention provides a method for modeling the downlink system load in a cellular telecommunication system which comprises the steps of: a) selecting a virtual point in which all users are virtually moved; b) calculating, for each user, a virtual target level of received signal quality as if all users were virtually located at the virtual point so that the power budget of the cell and each of the actual target levels of received signal quality are unchanged; and c) modeling said downlink system load as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point.
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- The present invention relates to a method according the preamble of claim 1 and to a method according the preamble of claim 3.
- In a variety of wireless telecommunication systems of new generation, mobile users within a cell share a common pool of radio resources. Such shared radio resources may include time, power, frequency and codes.
- An example of such new generation wireless systems is the 3rd Generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS), like the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode based on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA). Besides, also 4G wireless systems, as WiMax, and the evolution of 2G standards (e.g. GSM) apply the concept of shared resources.
- For example, in WCDMA technologies, the system environment has the characteristic of being interference-limited since power and spectrum resources are shared among the users and among the cells of the system. Such characteristic implies that the traffic load handled by a cell affects also the traffic loads handled by the neighbour cells and, thus, it has also an impact on the traffic load served by the whole system.
- In order to properly manage the shared resources, a variety of Radio Resources Management (RRM) algorithms are provided.
- An examples of basic RRM functions is admission control that performs the check if a new request for radio resources from a user accessing a cell can be admitted without degrading the quality of the ongoing calls/users.
- Thus, admission control plays a primary role in optimising the utilization of the cell-shared resources and in maintaining the system load within a delimited range in order to avoid unstable conditions in the network.
- Admission control is typically a centralised function, e.g., in 3G cellular systems, it is provided within the Radio Network Controller (RNC).
- In general, to admit a request of a new user or bearer, admission control typically estimates, via the use of proprietary algorithms, the system load (or its increase due to a new user request) and then decides the admittance of the user request by comparing the estimated system load (or its increase) with a predefined threshold above which service quality cannot be guaranteed.
- Therefore, in order to be able to admit the maximum number of user requests without compromising the quality of the admitted calls, it is crucial to perform an estimation of the actual system load as correct and as precise as possible.
- As described in 3GPP TS25.401 [1], the calculation of the actual system load typically takes into account interference and resource measurements available in the system.
- In state of the art systems, admission control algorithms are independently applied to the uplink (UL) and to the downlink (DL) transmission directions.
- In known methods for estimating the load, the cell and system loads are calculated with different approaches in the UL and DL directions. For example, in the UL direction, the load estimation may be done by measuring the Received Total Wideband Power (RTWP) and, in the DL direction, by measuring the Transmitted Carrier Power (TCP); where the TCP is the total cell transmitted power, as measured at the cell antenna connector, for common and dedicated channels.
- Each request for resources in a given direction, UL or DL, is weighted in order to estimate the new (i.e. after the acceptance of the new request) UL or DL system load so that such computed system load can be compared with the resource budget or maximum load acceptable in the addressed cell.
- In general, the weight of each request depends on the type of the desired service by a user, on the user equipment position and on the amount of interference affecting the user and the addressed cell.
- One of the major difficulties in calculating the cell and system loads stands in giving the appropriate weights to the specific resource requests.
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- The definition in (1) also applies if the power is substituted with any of the shared radio resources of the system.
In order to calculate the cell load ρ with equation (1), a receiving point for the respective powers has to be defined. - A system load, hereinafter referred with symbol S_ρ , is defined as the load of a cell taking into consideration also the contribution of the interfering powers coming from neighbouring cells.
- For the UL direction, in known methods for estimating the cell and system loads, the receiving point is generally straightforwardly defined as being the receive antenna connector of the cell. Such definition of the UL receiving point is widely used in state of the art cell and system load estimation methods, as for example in Holma, Tosakala [2].
- Instead, for the DL direction, known methods for estimating the system load are very complex. In fact, the receiving point for the cell-transmitted signal is not unique, being the receive antenna connector of each connected user and, in general, being the connected users located in different geographical points respect to the serving cell.
- Various known methods are provided for modeling the system load and for providing admission control algorithms in the DL direction (see for examples references Sanchez-Gonales et al. [3] and Perez-Romero et al. [4]).
- In UMTS cellular telecommunication systems, admission control is typically performed in the Controlling-Radio Network Controller (C-RNC).
- The C-RNC has the overall control of the radio resources of its related NodeBs. A NodeB is a functional node in a Radio Network Subsystem responsible for radio transmission and reception in one or more cells to and from the user equipments. In general, for each NodeB, there is only one C-RNC.
- One of the tasks of the C-RNC is to operate, maintain and update, in both UL and DL directions, the status of the load of the controlled cells so as to correctly decide whether to admit or not a new incoming request.
- In order to be able to transmit information to a generic i-th user in a desired way, connections over the radio interface have to obtain a predefined level of quality.
A measure of such quality level for the generic i-th user is the target Carrier to Interference Ratio (CIRtarget,i ) which indicates the desired ratio of received carrier wave power to received interfering power for the i-th user. Other measures for the quality of a connection include Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR), Signal to Noise Ratio (S/N), and Signal to Noise plus Interference Ratio (S/(I+N)). - The contribution of the i-th user to the DL system load may be defined as:
where Ci is the power received from the assigned resources at the i-th user antenna connector and where ITOT is the total power received at the antenna connector of the i-th user. The received total power ITOT consists of the contributions given by the interference of intra-cell users (the total power received from the served calls at the serving cell), by the interference of inter-cell users (the total power received from the neighbour cells), and by the system noise. Thus, as defined in reference Holma, Toskala [2], ITOT can be expressed as follows:
where αi is an orthogonality factor taking into account the loss of orthogonality of transmitted codes due to the multipath effect, where IOWN is the intra-cell interference, where IOTHER is the inter-cell interference , where PN is a received average white Gaussian noise and where Gi is a geometry factor, defined as following: -
- A major drawback of the theoretical formalization of the DL system load provided in equation (5) is that, by combining equation (5) with equations (2) and (3), it appears that for each i-th served user, the factor
- Unfortunately, keeping track of the position of each served user introduces much complexity in real system computations.
- In particular, in UMTS systems, since it is one of the roles of the C-RNC module to maintain the context of each active call and update it consequently via the respective dedicated and common measurements, the C-RNC module might result to be overloaded.
- Radio measurements generally used are the TCP and the transmitted power per allocated code. TCP is a common measurement of the total cell transmitted power. Whereas the transmitted power per allocated code is a dedicated measurement of the transmitted power per active code or radio connection.
- Radio measurements are performed by NodeB and forwarded to the C-RNC over the line interface connecting the RNC to the NodeB.
- Since, in order to obtain reliable estimations, the NodeB should report dedicated measurements to the C-RNC at high frequency, an additional major drawback is that the message handling line and the C-RNC processor can get overloaded.
- In summary, a major drawback of known methods for DL system load estimation is the need of calculating, updating and tracking several different load factors one for each of the connected users.
- Considered that in a cell there might be hundreds of served users, such calculation becomes very costly in term of computational complexity.
- It is therefore aim of the present invention to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks, in particular by providing a method for DL load estimation that avoids to keep track, user by user, of a factor which depends on the position of each user of the cell.
- The before mentioned aim is achieved by a method for modeling the downlink system load defined by the steps of claim 1 and by a method for admission control defined by the steps of claim 3.
- Embodiments of the present invention, having certain advantages, are given in the dependent claims.
- The provided invention advantageously allows the DL system load to be easily updated.
- Moreover, the provided invention reduces the computational complexity of the DL system load estimation.
- The proposed method is robust with respect to the frequency to which the radio measurements are made available in real systems.
- The invention will now be described in preferred but not exclusive embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
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- flow chart for modeling the DL system load according to an advantageous embodiment of the present invention;
- Figure 2
- flow chart for DL admission control according to another advantageous embodiment of the present invention.
- The proposed inventive method of modeling of the DL system load according the present invention includes the calculation of a virtual point "V" where all the users of a cell of a cellular telecommunication system are virtually moved.
- In the DL direction, each generic i-th cell user has an actual target level of received signal quality ρDL,i, herein after referred for simplicity as ρi. Such received signal quality may be the CIR, the SIR, the S/N, the S/(I+N) or any other measure of the signal quality that the user desires to obtain.
- According to the invention, any generic i-th user located at an actual point of the cell may be virtually moved to any virtual point V of the cell, without changing the power balance at the serving cell nor the quality of the offered service actually perceived by the served users, if a virtual target level ρi,V of received signal quality of the generic i-th user is recalculated accordingly.
- For each user, the virtual target level of received signal quality ρi,V is recalculated as if each i-th user were located at point V with the constraints that the power budget of the serving cell as well as the actual quality level perceived by the specific i-th user as well as by all the generic i-th users remain unchanged.
- According to the invention, the DL system load S_ρDL is modeled as if all the users of the cell were located in the virtual point V.
- Figure 1 shows a flow chart of a method for estimating the DL system load according to an advantageous embodiment of the present invention in which a j-th user is accessing its serving cell.
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step 100, when the j-th user is accessing the cell, radio measurements may be performed by the j-th user itself. - For example, in UMTS systems, the incoming j-th user, may report, via a RACH message, an indication of the signal quality, the C/Ij (Carrier over Interference power ratio), measured on the Primary Common Pilot CHannel (P-CPICH) of the accessed cell.
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step 110, it is calculated the virtual point V to which all the cell users, the already admitted ones and the j-th accessing user, are virtually moved. In further embodiment of the present invention, such virtual point V may be an already predefined point and therefore the calculation of the virtual point V, instep 110, may correspond to a mere selection of the already predefined virtual point. - In a further embodiment of the present invention, the virtual point V corresponds to the barycentre of all the served user positions and of the actual access point of the j-th user.
- In particular, if the j-th accessing user is the first user to be admitted in the cell, the virtual access point V may correspond to the actual accessing position of the j-th user. Thus, if the j-th accessing user is the first user to be admitted in the cell, the virtual interference level Iv,new experienced by the j-th user as if it were virtually located at the virtual point V, may also correspond to the interference level Ij actually experienced by the j-th user at its actual accessing point.
- Moreover, also a newly calculated cell load ρDL,new may correspond to the desired received signal quality CIRtarget (or ρj) as requested by the accessing j-th user.
- When the accessing j-th user is not the first user in the cell, the calculation of the virtual point V may take into account the already admitted users and the incoming j-th accessing user.
- Advantageously, both the interference measurement reported by the j-th incoming user and the interference measurements reported by the already admitted users may be used for the calculation of the virtual point V as the barycentre of the system.
- In
step 110, a new virtual interference level IV,new received at the new virtual access point V may be calculated. The new virtual interference level IV,new may be obtained as the average of the interference levels experienced by all (admitted and the one to be admitted) cell users weighted by the respective user's contribution to the cell load. -
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step 120, it is calculated, for the j-th accessing user, the virtual target level of received signal quality ρj,V as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point V so that the power budget of the cell and each of the actual target level of received signal quality are unchanged. With the above constraint, it is also ensured that the power to be transmitted by the serving cell Cj to the j-th user stays unchanged.
The virtual target level of received signal quality ρj,v may be calculated as following: -
- DL_Anew may be calculated as following:
where PCOMM is the cell transmitted power for the common channels (a pre-configured parameter in a base station of a cell) and where ρDL,new is a newly calculated DL cell load, obtained, considering that the accessing j-th user were to be admitted, as following: -
- Equation (Eq.131) actually defines the total power (serving cell + neighbour cells) over the power from the serving cell, as received by the users of that serving cell at the common virtual access point.
- Advantageously, in an embodiment of the proposed inventive virtualisation procedure according the present invention, it results that the new cell load ρ DL,new is given by the sum of each single user contribution to the cell load. In fact, by combining equations (eq.120), (eq.131) and (eq.132) it comes out that
where M is the number of users admitted in the cell. - In a further embodiment of the present invention, the new DL scaling factor may be derived as a new average DL scaling factor DL_Ãnew of at least one previous scaling factor and a new scaling factor.
The new average DL scaling factor DL_Ãnew may be calculated as following:
where is Wa an averaging coefficient whose value is comprised between zero and one and where DL_A0 is the previous DL scaling factor. -
- Each time a new accessing j-th user is accessing the cell, the values of IV,new, ρDL,new and DL_Anew (or DL_Ã new) are newly calculated and the corresponding values derived from the previous admission become respectively IV,0, ρDL,0 and DL_A0 (or DL_Ã 0 ).
- At start-up, the value of the previous downlink cell load ρ DL,0 and the value of the previous virtual interference level IV,0 may be set to initial value of zero so that, for the first accessing j-th user, IV,new = Ij and ρDL,new = ρj,V = ρj (see equations (eq.110), (eq.120) and (eq.132)).
- In a further embodiment of the present invention, as described in references Holma, Tokala [2] and Laiho et al. [5], Ij may be defined as following:
where TCP is the Transmitted Carrier Power of the accessed cell, where TCPNC,k is the TCP transmitted by the k-th Neighbour Cell and where Lj defines the inverse of the attenuation (or pathloss) between the j-th user and the accessed cell, and where Lk defines the inverse of the attenuation (or pathloss) between the j-th user and the k-th Neighbour Cell. -
- Advantageously, the DL estimation according to the proposed method may be updated with radio measurements available in a real system and deployed product
The calculation of the virtual point V may be adjusted with periodical common measurements performed by the cell. - Conveniently, such common measurements should be not required very frequently.
In further embodiments of the present invention, the new DL system load S_ρDL,new may be estimated at each deletion event in which a quitting user is leaving the cell (e.g. for call release or outward handover/mobility) or at each handover event in which an inward mobile user is accessing from a neighbouring cell.
In case of a deletion event, the new estimated system load is calculated by removing the contribution of the departing user.
In both events (deletion and handover), the user (departing or accessing) is assumed to be located at the previously calculated virtual point. - Figure 2 shows a flow chart for DL admission control according to a further advantageous embodiment of the present invention.
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step 100, a j-th user is accessing the cell. The new DL system load S_ρDL,new may be estimated viasteps 100 to 130 as above described.
Instep 200, the estimated system load S_ρDL,new is compared to a predefined threshold above which quality of service cannot be guaranteed.
If the estimated system load S_ρDL,new is below the threshold, the request of service of accessing j-th user is accepted and the j-th user is admitted within the cell.
If the estimated system load S_ρDL,new is above the threshold, the request of service of accessing j-th user may be rejected. - In a further embodiment of the present invention, the variation of the estimated system load S_ρDL,new due to the access of the accessing j-th user may be used in the above comparison.
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- CIRtarget,i
- target carrier interference ratio for the i-th user
- C/Ij
- measured carrier over interference power ratio by the j-th user
- Ci
- carrier power received by the i-th user
- C-RNC
- controlling RNC
- DL
- downlink
- Gi
- geometry factor
- Ij
- interference level of the j-th user
- Iv
- virtual interference level at the virtual point V
- Iv,new
- newly calculated interference level at the virtual point V
- I V,0
- previously calculated interference level at the virtual point V
- IOWN
- intra-cell interference
- IOTHER
- inter-cell interference
- ITOT
- total power received by the i-th user
- PCOMM
- base-station transmitted power for downlink common channels
- PN
- received average white Gaussian noise
- P-CPICH
- primary common pilot channel
- RAN
- radio access network
- RACH
- random access channel
- RNC
- radio network controller
- RRM
- radio resource management
- RTWP
- received total wide band power
- S_ρ
- system load
- S_ρDL
- DL system load
- TCP
- transmitted carrier power
- TPP-CPICH
- transmitted power in the P-CPICH
- UL
- uplink
- UMTS
- universal mobile telecommunications system
- WCDMA
- wide band code division multiple access
- α;
- orthogonality factor
- p
- cell load
- ρDL,i
- contribution of the i-th user to the DL system load; or
target level of received signal quality for the i-th user - ρ i
- contribution of the i-th user to the system load
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- [1] 3GPP TS25.401 "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; UTRAN Overall Description"
- [2] H.Holma, A. Toskala "WCDMA for UMTS", III edition
- [3] J.Sanchez-Gonzalez, J. Perez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Augusti, "An Admission Control Algorithm for WCDMA Considering Mobile Speed and Service Characteristic"
- [4] J. Perez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Augusti, G. Pares, "A Downlink Admission Control Algorithm for UTRA-FDD"
- [5] J. Laiho, A. Wacker, T. Novosad, "Radio Network Planning and optimisation for UMTS"
Claims (14)
- A method for modeling the downlink system load in a cellular telecommunication system, wherein a cell comprises a number of users, each of said users having an actual target level of received signal quality; said method characterized in that it comprises the steps of:(a) selecting a virtual point in which all said users are virtually moved;(b) calculating, for each of said users, a virtual target level of received signal quality as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point so that the power budget of said cell and each of said actual target levels of received signal quality are unchanged; and(c) modeling the downlink system load as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point.
- The method according to claim 1,
wherein said users comprise admitted users and a j-th user, said j-th user accessing said cell in an actual point at an access event (100);
wherein said step (a) is performed at said access event of said accessing j-th user (110);
wherein, in said step (b), for said j-th accessing user, said new virtual target level is calculated and, for said admitted users, the sum of the previous virtual target levels is updated with said selected virtual point (120); and
wherein said step (c) is performed at said access event of said accessing j-th user (130). - A method for admission control in the downlink direction in a cellular telecommunication system, wherein a cell comprises a number of users, said users comprising admitted users and an accessing j-th user, which is accessing said cell in an actual point at an access event (100), each of said users having an actual target level of received signal quality; said method characterized in that it comprises the steps of:(a) selecting (110), at each access event of said accessing j-th user, a virtual point in which all said users are virtually moved;(b) calculating, for said accessing j-th user a virtual target level of received signal quality and, for said admitted users, updating the sum of the previous virtual target levels of received signal quality with said selected virtual point as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point so that the power budget of said cell and each of said actual target levels of received signal quality are unchanged (120);(c) modeling (130), at each access event of said accessing j-th user, the downlink system load as if all said users were virtually located at said virtual point; and(d) if said modeled downlink system load is below a predefined load threshold (200), admitting said accessing j-th user (210).
- The method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of:(e) if said modeled downlink system load is above said predefined load threshold (200), not-admitting said accessingj-th user (220).
- The method according any of the preceding claims,
wherein said step (a) further comprises:- calculating said virtual point as the barycenter of all said users within said cell. - The method according to any of the claims 2 to 4,
wherein said step (a) further comprises:- calculating said virtual point as the barycenter of all said users within said cell, andwhere ρ DL,0 is the previous downlink cell load, where Iv,0 is the previous virtual interference level, and where Ij is the actual interference level received by said accessing j-th user at said actual point. - The method according to any of the claims 2 to 6,
wherein said step (b) further comprises:- calculating said virtual target level of received signal quality, herein after referred as ρj,V, essentially, as
where ρj is said actual target level of received signal quality for said accessing j-th user, where Iv,new is the new virtual interference level received by said users as if said userswere virtually located at said virtual point, and where Ij is the actual interference level received by said j-th user at said actual point; and where I v,0 is the previous virtual interference level. - The method according to any of the claims 2 to 7
wherein said step (c) further comprises:- modeling said downlink system load, herein-after referred as S_ρDL, essentially, as
where DL_Anew is a new downlink scaling factor essentially calculated as
where Iv,new is the new virtual interference level received by said users as if they were located at said virtual point, where PCOMM is is the pre-configured cell transmission power for the common channels, and
where ρDL,new is the new downlink cell load, if said j -th user were to be admitted, essentially calculated as
where ρ DL,0 is the previous downlink cell load. - The method according to any of the claims between 2 and 7, wherein said step (c) further comprises:- modeling said downlink system load, herein-after referred as S_ρDL, essentially, as
where DL_Ãnew is a new average downlink scaling factor essentially calculated as a weighted average of at least one previous scaling factor and a new scaling factor DL_Anew essentially calculated as
where IV,new is the new virtual interference level received by said users if they were located at said virtual point, where PCOMM is a pre-configured cell transmission power for the common channels , and where ρDL,new is a new downlink cell load, if said j-th user were to be admitted, essentially derived as
where ρ DL,0 is the previous downlink cell load. - The method according to any of the claims 6 to 9 further comprising the step of:- at start-up, initializing said previous downlink cell load ρ DCL,0 and said previous virtual interference level Iv,0 to the initial value of zero so that, for the first accessing j-th user, said virtual point is said actual point and so that IV,new = Ij, where Ij is the actual interference level received by said j-th user at said actual point.
- The method according to any of the claims 2 to 10, further comprising the step:- calculating the actual interference level received by said j-th user at said actual point, referred as Ij, from radio measurements performed by said j-th user.
- The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:- calibrating said virtual point with periodical common measurements performed by said cell.
- The method according to claim 1,
wherein said steps (a) and (b) are performed at a deletion event, in which a departing user is quitting said cell, assuming that said departing user is positioned at the previous virtual point; and
wherein step (c) is performed by removing from the previous system load the contribution of said departing user, assuming that said departing user is positioned at the previously selected virtual point. - The method according to claim 1,
wherein said steps (a), (b) and (c) are performed at the accessing event of a new user for inward mobility from a neighbour cell, assuming that said accessing user is accessing at the previously selected virtual point.
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